{"id":2476491,"date":"2026-06-26T08:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T08:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2476491"},"modified":"2026-06-26T08:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T08:57:11","slug":"heres-brandon-flowers-wistful-new-solo-single-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/heres-brandon-flowers-wistful-new-solo-single-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s Brandon Flowers&#8217; wistful new solo single &#8216;Plans&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/brandon-flowers\">Brandon Flowers<\/a> has returned with a new solo single, \u2018Plans\u2019 \u2013 listen below.<br \/><strong><br \/>Read More: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/brandon-flowers-interview-new-music-albums-solo-the-killers-bruce-springsteen-oasis-3864383\">Brandon Flowers talks new solo and Killers music \u2013 and the power of Springsteen and Oasis<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The twangy, wistful song will appear on the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/the-killershttps:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/the-killers\">Killers<\/a> frontman\u2019s third solo album,<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/brandon-flowers-announces-new-nashville-recorded-solo-album-thrasher-ive-found-my-way-back-to-my-fathers-music-3952759\"> \u2018Thrasher\u2019<\/a>, which is released on August 21 via Island.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Thrasher\u2019 marks Flowers\u2019 first solo full-length effort in over a decade,\u00a0 following 2015\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/reviews-brandon-flowers-16060-315481\">\u2018The Desired Effect\u2019<\/a> and his 2011 debut <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/blogs\/nme-blogs\/brandon-flowers-flamingo-what-do-you-think-782999\">\u2018Flamingo\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Arriving today (Friday June 26), first track \u2018Plans\u2019 sees the singer lean heavily into an Americana, old school country-tinged sound \u2013 far from the synth-pop sonics of his previous LP.<\/p>\n<p>Some fans are comparing the track to the slow-burning, contemplative latest Killers album, 2021\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/the-killers-pressure-machine-review-3017509\">\u2018Pressure Machine\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSo hold me in your arms \/ I think I\u2019m going under \/ Take your time with my heart \/ It\u2019s been rattled by the thunder<\/em>,\u201d he sings over acoustic guitar, pedal steel and some rich female backing vocals, making way for lush strings.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brandon Flowers - Plans (Official Audio)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-hhXBUACV8Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Reflecting on some ill-fated dreams, Flowers adds: \u201c<em>Of the all you got engine \/ Always bound for the big show \/ Drowning out the plans I drew up years ago.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recorded in Nashville, \u2018Thrasher\u2019 was made with Flowers\u2019 longtime producers Shawn Everett and Jonathan Rado, as well as guitarist David Rawlings, pedal steel player Bruce Bouton, and 85-year-old Charlie McCoy (the harmonica player who featured on all four of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/bob-dylan\">Bob Dylan\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0Nashville records).<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming collection focuses on Flowers\u2019 early years, spending his childhood in the small town of Nephi, Utah. He looks back on how his father would drive him around the countryside listening to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/johnny-cash\">Johnny Cash<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/waylon-jennings\">Waylon Jennings<\/a> on the record.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Thrasher\u2019 is said to find the vocalist at his most personal and vulnerable, delving into a chapter of his life that he\u2019s rarely written about before, and reminiscing about these formative years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DZ8HydMDxgk\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAs I\u2019ve gotten older, I\u2019ve found my way back to my father\u2019s music \u2013 \u2018Country-Western\u2019 (as he called it) \u2013 and discovered that the stories I carry really feel most at home in the skin of this beautiful American tradition,\u201d Flowers explained.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019ll showcase \u2018Thrasher\u2019 on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/brandon-flowers-announces-2026-uk-ireland-and-north-american-solo-tour-3953048\">a UK, Ireland and North American solo tour<\/a> later this year. The trek includes a show at the historic Royal Albert Hall in London in October. Tickets for the UK and Ireland dates go on general sale on at 10am BST next Friday (July 3) \u2013<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster-uk.tm7559.net\/c\/2862475\/431519\/7559?sharedid=NME&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.co.uk%2Fbrandon-flowers-tickets%2Fartist%2F1490282\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> you\u2019ll be able to buy yours here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/brandon-flowers-interview-new-music-albums-solo-the-killers-bruce-springsteen-oasis-3864383\">Speaking to <em>NME<\/em> last year<\/a>, the singer discussed plans for two new solo albums, describing the first as more of a \u201cstep backwards\u201d from \u2018The Desired Effect\u2019.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s more in the \u2018Flamingo\u2019 direction,\u201d he told us. \u201cI made two South West records, if you want to know the truth. One is a romantic South West record, and the other is a narrative South West record which picks up where \u2018Pressure Machine\u2019 left off.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brandon Flowers talks Oasis, Springsteen and plans for two new solo albums and The Killers&amp;apos; future\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FT2BR-g65SI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m thrilled about both of them, and they\u2019ll both come out before the next Killers record \u2013 but I\u2019m thrilled about the next Killers record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for future material from The Killers, Flowers said it was \u201ca little too early to say\u201d what the band\u2019s next batch of songs would sound like. However, he revealed that they wouldn\u2019t be returning to the slick, synth-y style of standalone singles <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/listen-to-the-killers-anthemic-new-song-boy-3284083\">\u2018Boy\u2019<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/the-killers-announce-new-single-your-side-of-town-3486836\">\u2018Your Side Of Town\u2019<\/a> (both produced by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/stuart-price\">Stuart Price<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not put it out unless it is the best,\u201d he told <em>NME<\/em>. \u201cWe\u2019ve already discussed it. It\u2019s gotta be so good or it\u2019s not worth it.\u201d He then confirmed the new music would feature \u201call four members\u201d, after they reunited for the 2024 song\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/listen-to-the-killers-euphoric-new-single-bright-lights-3782302\">\u2018Bright Lights\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nme.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Flowers has returned with a new solo single, \u2018Plans\u2019 \u2013 listen below.Read More: Brandon Flowers talks new solo and Killers music \u2013 and the power of Springsteen and Oasis The twangy, wistful song will appear on the Killers frontman\u2019s third solo album, \u2018Thrasher\u2019, which is released on August 21 via Island. \u2018Thrasher\u2019 marks Flowers\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2476492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[23849,21935,21939],"class_list":["post-2476491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-country","tag-indie","tag-rock"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Heres-Brandon-Flowers-wistful-new-solo-single-Plans.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2476491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2476493,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476491\/revisions\/2476493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2476492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2476491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2476491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2476491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}